Massing Studies for an office building. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against technology; it has its place in the creative journey. Consider these studies, which help explain the massing evolution.

De Chant kindly asks architects to “please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers.” From his post: Want to make a skyscraper look trendy and sustainable? Put a tree on it. Or better yet, dozens.

The project's concept drawings show a unique structure in the form of a slender, glass-lined building that begins and ends on solid ground. At 4000 ft. in length, if the structure were to be built ...

After several centuries of interruption, the master-builder tradition has reemerged as design-build delivery. Thanks to ...

If fact, if the skyscraper design came to fruition, its size would overtake Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which at 2,722 feet, is the world’s tallest (and longest) building. + Oiio Studio Via CNN ...

Ursini says that design software is finally changing that paradigm. The twisting tower–defined in the study as a building higher than 295 feet that rotates its floor plates as it gains height ...

Elisha Otis' elevator patent drawing, 15 January 1861. Via Wikimedia Commons.. Today, in conjunction with the implementation of the steel frame, the Otis elevator is generally considered the ...

Miles O'Brien reports on how the design of skyscrapers has changed since 9/11. This report was produced in collaboration with the PBS program "NOVA." Full Episode. Thursday, Jul 10.

In Albania’s capital Tirana, where a spate of new towers will soon transform the skyline, architects have revealed plans for a new double skyscraper that will bend elegantly like a ballet dancer ...